How to get Effectors [SOLVED]

Helper

On 29/03/2016 at 04:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Hi,

I use Melange in order to read Cinema4D files. Everything is kind of OK so far.
Now I've got a file with Linear Cloner Object.
It has an Effector, which is Spline and Cloner works differently... of course.

Question is: How to retrieve list of effectors for any object in scene?

Alex

Helper

On 30/03/2016 at 03:04, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello and welcome,

Not every object in a Cinema 4D scene has assigned effectors. Only MoGraph generators are linked to MoGraph effectors. When you look at a Cinema 4D scene you see that these effectors are linked using an InExclude list on the MoGraph cloner object.

So to get the effectors that are assigned to a specific cloner you have to read that parameter to obtain that InExclude list. Such a list is stored in form of the InExcludeData data type.

  
// check if the object is a MoGraph cloner  
if(object->IsInstanceOf(1018544))  
{  
  
  printf("Found a MoGraph Cloner object\n");  
  
  GeData data;  
  
  //ID_MG_MOTIONGENERATOR_EFFECTORLIST is 2009  
  if(object->GetParameter(DescLevel(2009), data))  
  {  
  InExcludeData* effectorList = (InExcludeData* )data.GetCustomDataType(CUSTOMDATATYPE_INEXCLUDE_LIST);  
  if(effectorList)  
  {  
    const Int32 count = effectorList->GetObjectCount();  
    for (Int32 i = 0; i < count; ++i)  
    {  
      BaseList2D* linkedObject = effectorList->ObjectFromIndex(loadedDoc, i);  
  
      // custom function to print the object name  
      PrintObjectName(linkedObject);  
    }  
  }  
  }  
}

best wishes,
Sebastian

Helper

On 30/03/2016 at 15:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you very much - I've been expecting something like that.
It works, at least I can get object :).

Alex